“You’re Not Typical Professors, Are You?”: Reflections on the NCHC Faculty Institute in Miami and the Everglades

Authors

Joy Ochs, Mount Mercy CollegeFollow

Date of this Version

2006

Comments

Published in Honors in Practice, volume 2. Copyright 2006 National Collegiate Honors Council.

Abstract

At the close of the NCHC Faculty Institute in Miami and the Everglades, our group went out for a celebratory dinner at a Cuban restaurant in Miami. Between the main course and the dessert, one of our group struck up a conversation with the young man selling flowers on the sidewalk outside. As we left the restaurant a short while later, knots of participants still locked in animated conversation, the flower vendor remarked, “You’re not typical professors, are you?”